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Chef Lindsay Autry took home the gold Sunday at Cochon 555 in Miami/photo courtesy Facebook

Before we begin, let us just say congratulations to chefs Linsday, Clay, Aaron, Isaac, Lauren and Tim!

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The winner of Sunday’s Miami leg of Cochon 555, a snout-to-tail pork cooking competition prized among chefs, has a 561 area code.

The winner’s none other than Lindsay Autry, known nationally for her “Top Chef” finalist fame and her stand-out Palm Beach cooking resume ranging from being Michelle Bernstein’s protégé to big-draw local cooking collaborations and Autry’s recently launched Fin & Feather catering enterprise.

Autry and the teammates she chose for the competition—among her teammates, Palm Beach’s Clay Conley of Buccan and Aaron Black of PB Catch—bested crackerjack teams led by Miami chefs.

As the winner of the Miami leg of Cochon 555, an annual traveling cooking competition that promotes the sustainable farming of heritage-breed pigs, Autry has been named a regional “Princess of Porc” and is “beyond honored…and so grateful foe my wonderful team of talented chefs and friends that helped us take home the gold.”

Autry will go on to compete against other regional Cochon 555 winners at the national Grand Corchon competition June 20 in Aspen, Colo., where the winner will be crownd the King or Queen of Porc.

Sunday’s competition took place at Loews Miami Beach Hotel. Each chef team was required to prepare a maximum of six dishes that collectively used an entire 200-pound heritage-breed pig—as in tail to snout and everything in between.

In addition to chefs Conley and Black, Autry’s team members included Isaac Cerny of Pistache French Bistro in downtown West Palm Beach; Lauren DeShields of Market 17 in Fort Lauderdale; and Tim Lipman of Palm Beach Gardens’ Coolinary Café.